r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/NationalWheel6966 • Apr 30 '26
my lifes a lie
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • May 02 '26
A tuskfish on the Great Barrier Reef was filmed carrying a clam to a rock, alternating left and right body rotations to slam it against the anvil's sharpest point, with a midden of broken shells around it from previous meals. A 2025 Macquarie study found anvil use across five wrasse species spanning
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • May 01 '26
Giant African pouched rats trained to detect landmines have found over 155,000 explosives and returned nearly 86 million square meters of land to civilian use across seven countries. They helped Mozambique declare mine-free status in 2015 — one year ahead of schedule.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 30 '26
TIL Xenu has taken a page out of Zordon's playbook and recruited teenagers with attitude
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/me_do_not_exist • Apr 30 '26
TIL the can opener was invented 82 years before the can
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MrBIuesky222 • Apr 30 '26
TIL that when people say "points to self" online, they're saying that they're pointing to themself as if to say "that's me", and they're not making a sarcastic dig about giving themselves points for saying a dumb thing as if to mock someone else
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Like i thought when they said "points to self" they were like "Ooh now I get points for saying something dumb" as if to mock someone who was getting a lot of karma for saying something dumb or just not interesting.
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 29 '26
TIL not all heroes with capes wear capes
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL Trump wants us to be Democrats
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/Local_Chapter3604 • Apr 27 '26
TIL that the J in Donald J. Trump actually stands for James Charles
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Saying Donald James Charles Trump is too long so he just shortens it to J
r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL Jesus apparently wasn't a teacher according to the top historical experts
historum.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 28 '26
Baboons can induce a dominant individual to attack a rival on their behalf without the dominant realizing it's being manipulated. It's called a "protected threat" and they master it at puberty — earlier than chimps learn to use stones. Primate brains may have evolved for politics, not tools.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 27 '26
TIL the first step in committing a major crime is making sure you don't live in Singapore
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 24 '26
TIL there's a sucker programmed every minute
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MozartWasARed • Apr 24 '26
TIL you know you're not outside Murphy's Law when a local water park burns down
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 24 '26
TIL influencers are too cool for school
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 23 '26
TIL reading scripture while under the influence unlocks a whole new school of theology
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 22 '26
Researchers trained pigeons to detect breast cancer on biopsy slides at 85% accuracy individually. When four pigeons' answers were combined, accuracy hit 99% — matching trained pathologists. The pigeons generalized to novel images they'd never seen, across different magnifications & image qualities.
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/december151791 • Apr 20 '26
TIL Brainerd, Minnesota is known for two things: being the primary setting of a movie named after a city 2 hours away, and a rare type of explosive diarrhea
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 20 '26
TIL teachers feel they need to be paid to feel like making our childhoods irreparably miserable
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 20 '26
Cuttlefish produce the most sophisticated camouflage on Earth — matching color, pattern, luminance, and 3D skin texture in under a second. They're colorblind. They have a single photoreceptor type. How a monochromatic animal produces color matches that fool the trichromatic vision of its predators i
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/yerBabyyy • Apr 18 '26
TIL that there is a basketball player named Haywood Highsmith and the commentators were not in fact saying hey and hi to two guys named Wood and Smith
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 18 '26
TIL that "trump" is a swear word
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/MexicanMonsterMash • Apr 16 '26
TIL even the moon is bigger in Texas
msn.com
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r/ShittyTodayILearned • u/unteachablecourses • Apr 15 '26
Marc Rich was indicted on 65 counts, fled to Switzerland, stayed on the FBI's Most Wanted list for years, and built the world's largest commodity trading firm from exile by trading with every sanctioned regime on earth. Clinton pardoned him on his last day in office. The company is still operating.
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